Simon Tierney wrote:
> I am trying to print to the parallel port on a printer via one of these
> cables, which plugs to the usb port on the computer and and the
> parallell port on the printer.
>
> The printer is not recognized when I probe for it using
> system-config-printer.
what release are you using?
are you using cups for print manager?
what printer are you using?
is it listed in printer configs?
not all printers give feedback to describe what they are.
not all printers listed in config list.
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